Re^2: "Standing on the shoulders of giants"

What would make CPAN work even better would be to ~~encourage~~ not so effectively discourage collaboration. CPAN right now does an excellent job of discouraging collaboration. The funniest part is the case when real collaboration isn't even required; the most common case of free software development; the case of the person eventually moving on after they scratched their itch; the case where CPAN does an amazing job of discouraging simple maintenance.

It makes associating the phrase "on the shoulders of giants" with CPAN humorous to me. That's the aspect of good software development that CPAN does the best job of preventing.

- tye

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Re^3: "Standing on the shoulders of giants" by chromatic (Archbishop) on Nov 28, 2011 at 22:22 UTC
Agreed; CPAN is a lot more useful for me when tools like Git make forking and patching so much easier. Eric Wilhelm's SVN for CPAN would have been nice several years ago. Obviously the responsiveness of maintainers is still important (and perhaps my worst failing as a CPAN author) but actively encouraging collaboration would be amazing. To the credit of many people, CPAN has improved dramatically in this respect as of late. Improve your skills with Modern Perl: the free book.	[reply]
Re^3: "Standing on the shoulders of giants" by aartist (Pilgrim) on Nov 28, 2011 at 22:10 UTC
I had never thought from this angle. Real collaboration is not required and still it is going on smoothly.	[reply]